The Boy Who Was Forbidden To Paint

Erling Johansson is one of our internationally reknown painters. He was born in Lapland 1932 and fostered in a pious Laestadian village at Nattavara where temperatures can reach as low as -57 C (-70 F) in winter time.

Because of the way of life of the Christian society of the Laestadians he was forbidden to paint and sing when he grew up, and as free spirit he started to rebel against theese rules.